Hacker News with Generative AI: DOS

DESQview (wikipedia.org)
DESQview (DV) is a text mode multitasking operating environment developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Operating Systems, History, Software, DOS

5 points by O1111OOO 11 days ago | 0 comments

Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS (blogsystem5.substack.com)
In “From 0 to 1 MB in DOS”, I presented an overview of all the ways in which DOS and its applications tried to maximize the use of the 1 MB address space inherited from the 8086—even after the 80286 introduced support for 16 MB of memory and the 80386 opened the gates to 4 GB.

Operating Systems, DOS, Memory Management

14 points by gone35 18 days ago | 3 comments

Microsoft Word 5.5 And 6.0 In-depth DOS Review With Pics (2018) (blogspot.com)
A new apple tastes sweet, rots at home (A history)

Microsoft Word, DOS, Software Reviews, History, Retro Computing

31 points by Tomte 26 days ago | 3 comments

The FAT12 File Truncation Bug (brutman.com)
A few weeks ago I was doing some research on the FAT12 and FAT16 filesystems in an attempt to improve my NetDrive code, and I found a bug that can lead to a perfectly valid file being truncated when you move from DOS 2.x to later versions of DOS.

File Systems, Operating Systems, DOS, Programming, Bugs

5 points by todsacerdoti 49 days ago | 0 comments

The DOS 3.3 sys.com bug hunt (brutman.com)
SYS.COM corrupted a NetDrive image. But why?

DOS, Debugging, Computer History, Operating Systems

71 points by todsacerdoti 89 days ago | 42 comments

RealDOOM: Doom Ported to 16-bit Real Mode (github.com/sqpat)
RealDOOM is an in progress port of the DOS version of DOOM (based on PCDOOMv2) to Real Mode to support 16-bit processors (namely the 8088 and 286). It is meant to be accurate to the original game and id software WADs first and foremost. So it should work with timedemos, and have the support for the same level of graphical detail as the original game.

Gaming, Retro Gaming, Software Development, DOS

46 points by klaussilveira 91 days ago | 6 comments

Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/OpenRakis)
Spice86 is a tool to execute, reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs for which source code is not available.

Reverse Engineering, Emulation, DOS, Software, Programming

175 points by alberto-m 92 days ago | 41 comments

Pocket386 Retro DOS Computer 386SX-40Mhz (tindie.com)
Pocket386 Retro DOSComputer 386SX-40 CPU DOS Computer Hand386 upgrade

Retrocomputing, Hardware, DOS, Computers, DIY

32 points by AlexeyBrin 97 days ago | 7 comments

Snake Game in 56 Bytes (github.com/donno2048)
This is an x86 snake game made for DOS, but there is also a version that requires no BIOS, bootloader or OS.

Programming, DOS, Game Development, Retro Computing, Code Golf

138 points by birdculture 131 days ago | 12 comments

B800 Text (shikadi.net)
B800 Text is a text-mode screen dump, and under x86 real mode (such as used by DOS) can be copied byte for byte into video memory starting at B800:0000, causing the data to appear on the screen when the video card is in text mode.

Computer Graphics, Operating Systems, DOS

3 points by susam 135 days ago | 0 comments

Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs (goto10retro.com)
In 1984 when the Atari ST hardware was being finalized, there was a need to get an operating system on it.

Retro Computing, Atari ST, DOS, Operating Systems, History

28 points by rbanffy 137 days ago | 8 comments

DOS live USB image with tools for writers (dreamwidth.org)
Hello, you've been (semi-randomly) selected to take a CAPTCHA to validate your requests. Please complete it below and hit the button!

DOS, Operating Systems, Writing Tools

30 points by LorenDB 141 days ago | 9 comments

I thought I found a bug (os2museum.com)
So I was working on improving a DOS emulator, when I found that something seemingly trivial wasn’t working right when COMMAND.COM was asked to do the following:

Operating Systems, DOS, Emulators, Programming

125 points by MBCook 149 days ago | 25 comments

DOS APPEND (os2museum.com)
For a long time, I couldn’t quite grasp what the DOS APPEND command could possibly be good for. Until I came across a situation which APPEND was made for.

DOS, Operating Systems, Command Line, Retro Computing, Software

119 points by SeenNotHeard 154 days ago | 56 comments

A Year of WordHopper – Modern DOS Game Development Retrospective (kokoscript.com)
At the start of 2023, I decided to set a resolution for myself: release a game project. Didn't matter how big or small, it had to be something.

Game Development, Retro Games, DOS, Programming, Personal Projects

66 points by thunderbong 173 days ago | 2 comments

Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (blogsystem5.substack.com)
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?

DOS, Programming, Memory Management, x86 Architecture

182 points by mooreds 181 days ago | 101 comments

James Gleick's Chaos: The Software (github.com/rudyrucker)
This is a free release of the source, manual, and executables of a 1991 Autodesk DOS program that was called "James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software."

Software, Programming, History, Retro Computing, DOS

266 points by signa11 188 days ago | 33 comments

Microsoft LISP (edm2.com)
A LISP interpreter for DOS marketed by the Microsoft Corporation in the 1980's, it is actually a licensed version of muLISP that omits the compiler but is otherwise mostly identical.

Programming Languages, History, Microsoft, DOS, LISP

27 points by copx 231 days ago | 4 comments

DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support (github.com/joncampbell123)
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

DOS, Emulation, Retro Gaming, Open Source, Software

99 points by Fission_Strike 232 days ago | 41 comments

Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (blogsystem5.substack.com)
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?

Operating Systems, Programming, History, DOS, Memory Management

8 points by thunderbong 234 days ago | 2 comments

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (int10h.org)
The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times:

Computer Fonts, DOS, Retro Computing, Typography

124 points by OuterVale 236 days ago | 15 comments

A "hello world" program in machine code on DOS (uninformativ.de)

Programming, Operating Systems, DOS, Assembly Language, Low-Level Programming

24 points by zdw 236 days ago | 13 comments

DOStodon MS-DOS Mastodon Client (github.com/SuperIlu)

DOS, Mastodon, Software, Programming

7 points by Bluestein 263 days ago | 0 comments

DOS's Last Stand on a Modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel 10th-Gen Core CPU (yeokhengmeng.com)

DOS, Laptops, Hardware, Operating Systems, Retro Computing

10 points by yeokm1 278 days ago | 2 comments

WordStar for DOS 7.0 Archive (sfwriter.com)